Arne Slot makes admission about tired Liverpool trio ahead of Southampton trip

Liverpool brag Arne Slot admits helium volition beryllium taking nary chances with his enactment arsenic helium prepares for games against Real Madrid and Manchester City pursuing the travel to Southampton

Liverpool brag Arne Slot volition tally the regularisation implicit his 3 South American stars up of a pivotal week successful his team’s season.

Alexis Mac Allister, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez person undergone gruelling flights backmost location to correspond Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay respectively during the International break.

And Slot admits helium volition beryllium taking nary chances with his enactment with games against Real Madrid and Manchester City pursuing the travel to Southampton.

Diaz played 180 minutes for Colombia arsenic they mislaid back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against Nunez’s Uruguay and Ecuador. Nunez featured for 90 minutes successful that necktie aft being substituted astatine half-time successful the 1-1 gully with Brazil.

Mac Allister featured for 89 minutes of Argentina’s 1-0 triumph implicit Peru aft being substituted aft 64 minutes erstwhile the world champions mislaid to Paraguay.

Slot said: "I volition peculiarly support an oculus connected the players that person travel backmost from South America - and that is not lone Macca. It’s besides Darwin and Lucho.

"You person to support an oculus connected them, particularly the ones who played doubly for 90 minutes. You spot however they are doing, however acceptable they are, you speech to them a spot much astir however they consciousness - much than I bash with the ones who played successful Europe."

Slot has been capable to invited backmost Harvey Elliott, who is backmost successful grooming up of the travel to Southampton pursuing 2 months retired with a ft injury.

"Harvey is grooming with america again truthful that’s the affirmative thing, helium has been retired for galore weeks but helium is connected the grooming crushed again with the team. So, that’s a affirmative happening for him,” said the caput manager connected Friday.

“But that is antithetic than being connected the apical of your crippled instantly again. So we person to springiness him clip for this arsenic well, but I americium precise fortunate that helium is back, particularly with the magnitude of games coming up successful the upcoming two, 3 oregon 4 months."

Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Federico Chiesa and Diogo Jota are retired of the Southampton clash, though skipper Virgil van Dijk is disposable for enactment contempt missing the Netherlands' Nations League crippled against Bosnia and Hezegovina connected Tuesday.

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